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A lesson plan for the POV documentary Hiding and Seeking.

A lesson plan for the POV documentary Hiding and Seeking.

The study guide for Hiding and Seeking is divided into three lessons: Communities of Caring, Menachem's Challenge and Reconciling with the Past?

This lesson plan takes advantage of students' natural interest in issues that directly affects their lives: the debate over race, politics, and ethics in America.

POV is thrilled to offer high school teachers the following lesson plans prepared by the Education Department of the American Folk Art Museum and NYC High School Teachers, as part of their In the Realms of Henry Darger High School Curriculum.

Students will list some of the challenges a young refugee might face in the United States, particularly in a large city, and ask how a refugee is like an immigrant and what difference seems most striking.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as understanding the process of civic dialogue and its relationship to setting public policy and role of day laborers in the economy of U.S. towns and cities.

Students will have the opportunity to consider the challenges and ethics of reporting from a war zone and gain skills they can use to analyze and evaluate media information.

Students will learn more about the impact of technological innovation on society; gain awareness of the assistive technologies currently in use; become sensitized to the needs of people whose physical skills and abilities may differ from their own; and use their imagination.

This lesson is designed to give students a sense of how polling data is collected, how collection methods can alter outcomes, and whether or not reports on such research are valuable news items or not when deciding whether or not to support a candidate.